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Another area where this technology is starting to appear is asset tracking. Woolley continues: “This is in its very early stages but this technology can track objects so you can’t lose things such as power tools. Businesses are starting to embed beacons inside power tools so they cannot be lost on big construction sites. So the Mesh Network makes that possible as well. But that’s just a few examples. We don’t always know what brilliant ideas people have for the technology because it’s about innovation.”


Bluetooth is arguably the most known player in the market for wireless technology. Woolley says: “The Mesh Network is a place where we definitely have competitors, and actually in a way, we were late to the market with this. Some of our competitors in this space have been around for a very long time but they haven’t got a huge market share because they have focused on very niche applications which they have done very well in. Whereas we have have made our focus more general and that’s why we are doing well there.


“In the lighting industry, this is huge because lights are everywhere. They are permanently powered and smart lights like Bluetooth Mesh enabled lights use a small computer, which is therefore not only able to communicate but it’s running software. So the thinking is that if it’s possible to run multiple things on a computer at home then you can run more than just lighting control software on the tiny computers in the lighting systems. The summary term is that lighting is a distributed platform that


becomes IT infrastructure because you can run code on it. Obviously you’ve got the lighting control and monitoring software which is the core primary function but now you could also have indoor navigation systems built by the same infrastructure. They become beacons and can guide you through an airport for example to your gate. It can also keep track of people so if one area is getting particularly busy, they can open up another area to ease congestion in the original area.”


“Other Bluetooth technology is so successful because it does what it’s supposed to do very well and we have paid a great deal of attention to interoperability. I


also think that smart phones are a big help; the older phones had a point to point connection for a long time but when BLE came along it opened up a whole new world of possibilities for smart phones and I think that really gave it a boost.” Bluetooth 5 is the latest version to be


released. It is twice as fast as the previous generation (Bluetooth 4) with 2Mb per second instead of 1Mb per second which was the Bluetooth 4. It also had four times the range of the older version. And it also has eight times more space for broadcasting. Woolley thinks that Bluetooth has done so well because of its constant evolution. He concludes: “I think the success of Bluetooth lasting for 20 years is a Darwinian story; it’s about constant evolution. If we had stayed still, we would have been overtaken or become locked in a very narrow area. It’s been a constant evolution and we’ve got some very smart people with lots of new ideas about making the technology better or innovating in areas where wireless technology hasn’t touched before. Evolution is definitely the key, that’s why we are thriving, not just surviving.”


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